But now after watching the elephants--who are on our right, down the stream--let us turn our eyes to the left, and look _up_ the stream. CHAPTER II The Law of the Jungle Hush! Here come all the animals! The _buffaloes_, the _blue deer_, the _red deer_, the _wild pigs_, the _hyenas_, the _wolves_, the _red dogs_, and many others. Watch and see how each kind of animal comes; it is not always in the same way. The moon is now shining clear above the trees, and we can see a long way up the stream. See the _buffaloes!_ They come a little _above the elephants_. But they do not come one behind another in a line, like the elephants. They come three or four together. They also have beaten down the bushes there years ago, to make a drinking place; and it is wide enough for three or four of them to drink at the same time, side by side. _How Buffaloes Come to Drink--in Rows_ But why must they drink three or four at the same time? Because the buffaloes are like a body of soldiers, one row behind another. Sometimes twenty or thirty rows make up a herd. We see only the first row drinking now, but soon we shall see the others behind. And why do the buffaloes come like a body of soldiers? Because they are afraid of their enemy--the tiger! Once upon a time the buffaloes lived scattered about, and many of them got eaten by the tiger, one at a time. Then those that escaped from the tiger became wise; they joined together like a body of soldiers, so that they could beat off the tiger. How they came to do that, I shall tell you at another time. But now let us watch the first row drinking. They are all _bull buffaloes_, the Papas of the herd; you can tell that by their _huge horns_, a yard long on each side of the head. You see how the buffaloes stand side by side, so that their horns almost touch one another. That is the way the buffaloes have marched to the stream from their feeding place--horn to horn. Why? Because no prowling tiger can get past those horns. Watch the first row as it finishes drinking; the whole row wheels around to the side like soldiers. Then the buffaloes that have had their drink march to the back of the herd, and stand there in a row facing the jungle. Meanwhile the second row in the front has stepped to the water to drink. These also are bull buffaloes. When they finish drinking, they also wheel, march to the back of the herd, and there stand behind the first row. In this way four or five rows of bulls drink, one after the other, and go to the back of the herd. Next come about a dozen rows of _cow buffaloes_ and their calves, or children. You see again, like the elephants, the Mammas and children among the buffaloes are also _in the middle_, safe from all harm. Then at the end there are four or five rows of bull buffaloes again, to guard the Mammas and the children from enemies in the back. _Buffalo Knights Guard the Timid Deer_